Prenatal spinal evaluation and functional outcome of patients born with myelomeningocele: Information for improved prenatal counselling and outcome prediction

Fetal Diagnosis and Therapy

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 159-168

  Cochrane, Douglas ^a   Wilson, R Douglas ^a   Steinbok, Paul ^a   Irwin, Beverly ^a   Irvine, Brandon ^a   Chambers, Keith ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Fetal; Meningomyelocele; Outcome; Prognosis; Spina bifida; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; ARTICLE; CHIARI FROMMEL SYNDROME; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTINENCE; DIASTEMATOMYELIA; ECHOGRAPHY; FETUS; HUMAN; HYDROCEPHALUS; INFANT; INTESTINE FUNCTION; KYPHOSCOLIOSIS; LEARNING DISORDER; MENINGOMYELOCELE; MOBILIZATION; NEURAL TUBE DEFECT; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PARENT COUNSELING; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SCHOOL CHILD; SPINAL CORD LESION; SPINAL CORD MALFORMATION; SURVIVAL RATE; SURVIVAL TIME; SYRINGOMYELIA; TERATOMA; URINE CATHETER;

EID: 0029892131     PISSN: 10153837     EISSN: 14219964     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000264297     Document Type: Article

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